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I feel like that post on centrism is attacking a straw man. I'm not a centrist because I think it's important to compromise with people with different political views. I'm a centrist because I actually believe that free markets with carefully targeted regulation and a redistributive tax system are superior to either managed economies or complete deregulation with no welfare state.

On immigration I do believe that it's necessary to compromise somewhat from my preferred stance, but that's not me being a centrist, that's me being an extremist who acknowledges that I'm not actually going to get what I want until the Overton window shifts such that completely open borders stops being seen as extreme.

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"I'm not a centrist because I think it's important to compromise with people with different political views."

Maybe you aren't, but there are others who are. I have heard it stated in exactly those terms: that if you're not equidistant from the extremes, wherever the extremes happen to be this month, you're being unreasonable and can be dismissed.

"On immigration I do believe that it's necessary to compromise somewhat from my preferred stance, but that's not me being a centrist, that's me being an extremist who acknowledges that I'm not actually going to get what I want until the Overton window shifts such that completely open borders stops being seen as extreme."

And yet every time you (we, actually, because that's my position too) compromise, the Overton window shifts further away from that goal, because the racists don't compromise and never will.

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I feel that the problem there though is people having ridiculous ideas about what centrism entails, rather than centrism itself.

FTAOD, the kind of compromises that I'm willing to countenance are along the lines of "Significantly reduce the barriers to immigration, rather than introducing open borders overnight". I don't countenance the continuation of the status quo, let alone any further restrictions.